WEBVTT TED, WE KNOW ONE SUSPECT HASBEEN CAUGHT.TED: THAT'S RIGHT.IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY FORPORT ST. LUCIE POLICE.BEHIND ME IS THE JEWELRY STORE.POLICE HAVE REFT OF THEINVESTIGATION.HAVE GATHERED QUITE A BIT OFEVIDENCE.BUT THREE OF THE FOUR SUSPECTSARE STILL ON THE LOOSE.>> THEY'RE SHAKEN UP REALLY BAD.THE TWO CLERKS THAT WERE INTHERE.TED: IT HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER9:00 THURSDAY MORNING.PORT ST. LUCIE POLICE SAYSOMEONE DROPPED OFF THREE MEN INFRONT OF LSO JEWELERS.THEY WEREN'T CUSTOMERS.THESE MEN WERE WEARING WIGS,HEAVY MAKEUP, AND COLORFULJUMPSUITS.>> THEY WENT INSIDE.TWO OF THEM WE BELIEVE HADHANDGUNS.THEY HELD THE CLERKS UP.THEY USED THE BAG TO PUT INPROPERTY FROM THE JEWELRY STORE.TED: INVESTIGATORS SAY THE MENRAN OUTSIDE AND TRIED TO GETAWAY.BUT ONE OF THEM DIDN'T MAKE ITFAR.>> THE OFFICERS CAUGHT ONE OFTHE SUSPECTS RUNNING ACROSS ST.LUCIE WEST BOULEVARD INTO THEPARKING LOT OF MARTIN MEMORIALE.R. ON ST. LUCIE WESTBOULEVARD.THE OTHER THREE, WE DON'T KNOWWHICH DIRECTION THEY WENT.TED: POLICE BLOCKED OFF AHANDFUL OF STREETS IN THENEIGHBORHOOD AND USED POLICEDOGS TO TRY AND FIND THESUSPECTSA NEARBY DAYCARE WAS PLACED ONLOCKDOWN FOR SEVERAL HOURS.FOUR SCHOOLS WERE ALSO LOCKEDDOWN, INCLUDING RENAISSANCECHARTER SCHOOL AND SUNLIGHTCHRISTIAN ACADEMY.AFTER MORE THAN THREE HOURS OFSEARCHING, POLICE CAME UP EMPTY.INVESTIGATORS SAY THE GETAWAYDRIVER WAS IN A WHITE SUWE HAD JUST OBTAINED THISSURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM POLICE.HE SEE THE SUSPECTS WALKINGINSIDE THE STORE WEARING WOMEN'SCLOTHES AND HEAVY MAKEUP.THERE INSIDE FOR SEVERAL MINUTESAND THEY MOVE QUICKLY.THEY FILL BAGS UP WITH JEWELRYAND EVENTUALLY RUN OUT THE BACKDOOR.AS WE MENTIONED, ONE OF THESUSPECTS RAN ACROSS THE STREETAND WAS APPREHENDED.THE OTHER THREE ARE STILL ON THELOOSE.HE SUSPECTS LEFT BEHIND SEVERALOF THOSE BANKS THAT THEY LOADEDUP.POLICE BELIEVE THEY WERE SPOOKEDBY SOMETHING AND MAY HAVE LEFTTHEM BEHIND ENTIRELY.

Four people wearing wigs, heavy makeup rob jewelry store

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Updated: 8:51 AM CDT Apr 14, 2017

Four robbers masquerading as women robbed a Florida jewelry store. Surveillance footage shows one of the robbers, garbed in a wig and heavy makeup, grabbing a clerk while holding a gun while the accomplices ransack the store.